Scale-ticket filing cabinet



Aug. 14, 1923. 1,464,934 I G. c. HOADLEY SCALE TICKET FILING CABINET Filed Oct. 20 1922 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 gwuawroz wctnesses Aug. 14,1923. MMQM G. C. HOADLEY SCALE TICKET FILING CABINET Filed 0st 20, 1922 3 sheets-Sheet 5 @QCJfiadlgy INVENTOR.

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Patented Aug. 14, 1923. lgdmflgif GLENN c. neentnr, or OLATHE, COLOR-ADO.

SCALE-TICKET FILING cesium.

Application filed October 20, 1822. Serial No. 595,715.

To all wiwnm't may concern: falling within the scope of the appended Be it known that l, GLENN C. HoAnLnY, claim. a citizen of the United States, residing at In the accompanying drawings: Ola-the, in the county of Montrose and State Figure l is a front elevation of one of my of Colorado, have invented certain new and improved filing cabinets.

useful Improvements in Scale-Ticket Fil- Figure 2 is a rear view of the same. ing Cabinets, of which the following is a Figure 3 is a View in front elevation of a specification. slightly different type of cabinet employed 7 in the shipment of produce or the like y me in the art of filing the above men- 10 by shippers to the buyer, it is customary ioned tickets. for each town wherein goods is shipped to igure at is a fragmentary vertical secemploy hat is k wn a weight master tional view therethrough showing the arfor properly weighing the produce, and ngement of the drawers. charging' the shipper or grower accordingly Figure 5 1s a longitudinal section through 15 for this service. For rendering this serv- One of the drawers used in the cabinet shown ice properly, it is necessary for the weight in Figure 3. master to employ an original, duplicate, lgure 6 is a top plan view of one of the and a triplicate ticket having marked theredrawers used in the cabinet shown in Figon the nature of the produce shipped, the uresl, 2 and 0 names of the grower and buyer, the driver g e S a ranverse sectional view of the load etc. also the gross, tare and 1 1e 7-7 of Figure 6, looking in net weight of the shipment, the original the e I nd ticket to go to the grower, the duplicate to a e 8 18 a f gm tary Vertic l seethe buyer or shipper, and the triplicate to be ilol'lal of the cflblnet Shown 111 Flgure retained by the weight master for his permore clearly ShOWlIlg the r ngement ma t filg of the drawers therein, this cabinet being Heretofore it has been practically an im Shown l'echlcefil 15 possibility to use the above mentioned or g HOW to the drawings ill detail, similar type of tickets in view of the fact and particularly to Figures 1, 2, l and 6 hat they are of the type of what are known thereof, 1 designates a cabinet comprising as loose leaf cale tickets, and 110 111 3113 3, lOOttOlD, S1Cl6 itIlCl tOP walls, and it VGltlCill f d t l fili th Same are k partition 2 whichdivides' the cabinet into T -I i i f th present i ti halves. Each half of the cabinet is divided these tickets may be advantageously used lIltO drawercompartments 111821-118 Of l101l- 35 in a simple and expeditious manner. Zontfil PMtIlJlOIIS that are spaced apart I carrying t th i ti it i y equal distances. Slidably mounted in each purpose t p id fili abi t f th drawer compartment is a drawer 4, which tickets whereby the same may be filed i a may be withdrawn from the cabinet either easy i f t d t ti manner, d at the front or rear as clearly illustrated in 40 as conveniently and quickly obtained when g hS Shown i Figure these as necessary, thereby eliminating the necessity dr wer members are divided by a transof ing cal book a i o d versely extending partition providing front It, is 1130 my purpose to provide filing and rear compartments 4' and 4;" respeccabinets for the purpose described, wherein lvely. hen pulled from the front, the 45 each drawer of a certain one of the cabinets r w be e y drawn from the may b pulled out fr ither the fr m; or cabinet, while when pulled from the rear, rear thereof, so that the attendant in charge he drawer may be only partially with of the cabinet will have access thereto from drawn. In order to prevent the entire withthe inside, and also allowing the shipper drawal of the drawer from the rear of the 50 to have a duplicate ticketafter the same has b I Secure t0 e 1 1 g of each been completely filled out. drawer compartment a strip 5, while the up With the above recited object in Vi per edges of the sides of the drawer 4: are and others of a similar nature, the invenc away as at 6 for approximately onetion resides in the construction, combination half h length 0Jf the 'i as clearly 55 and arrangement of parts set forth in, and shown 1n Figures 4, 6 and 7. Thus, shOulders are provided at the upper edges of the drawers, which abut the strips 5, when the drawer is pulled from the rear of the cabinet, so that entire withdrawal of the drawer from the cabinet is prevented.

The cabinet shown in Figures 3 and 8 of the drawings comprises bottom, side and top walls, and horizontal partitions 7 spaced apart equal distances to provide drawer compartments, and in each compartment is a drawer 8. Each drawer 8 comprises bottom, side and end walls, as clearly illustrated in Figure 5. These drawers 8 in the cabinet shown in Figures 3 and 8 may be withdrawn from the front side only, and one end wall of each drawer 8 is bevelled downwardly as at 19, while the other end wall is undercut as at 10, at an angle corresponding to the bevelled wall 9.

The drawers at in the cabinet 1, and the drawers 8 in the cabinet shown in Figures 3 and 8 are appropriately numbered in numerical order as shown, the drawers of the first mentioned cabinet being numbered at both ends, and each of the drawers of both of the cabinets are adapted to have marked thereon the names of the different companies to whom the goods are shipped.

As above set forth the type of scale ticket employed by me in connection with these file cabinets comprises an original, a duplicate, and a triplicate, the triplicate being of a stiff material such as cardboard and having the original and triplicate tickets secured thereto by adhesive or the like. Each of these tickets are printed with suitable wording thereon in accordance with the above description thereof, and the back of the duplicate and original are carbonized, whereby any marking on the original will similarly mark the duplicate and triplicate, when the tickets are superposed upon one another. After the gross weight of the load has been properly marked upon the original ticket, the weight master then writes the name of the driver of the load upon the lower left hand corner thereof. The unfinished tickets are then filed away in the drawers of the cabinet shown in Figures 3 and 8, the tickets being filed top downward, showing only the bottom edge of the tickets having the drivers name thereon. In view of the above described construction of the drawers 8 in the cabinet shown in Figures 3 and 8, these tickets will assume a position as shown by dotted lines in Figure 5, for readily allowing the weight master to extract the proper ti ket from its appropriate drawer.-

After removing the tickets from these last mentioned drawers the same are completely filled out, and then filed in the drawers of the cabinet 1, the duplicate ticket being received within the compartment l of the drawers and the original and triplicate in the other compartment 4, whereby they may be readily removed at any time by the shipper at one side, and the weightmaster at the other. The construction of the several drawers being such as to allow the shipper to extract only a duplicate ticket.

While the form of theinvention herein shown and described'is what is believed to be the preferred embodiment thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that various forms modifications and arrangements of the parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention claimed.

What I claim as new is i V A filing cabinet formed to provide drawer compartments and having the front and rear ends of said compartments open, drawers in said compartments adapted to be withdrawn from the respective compartments from either the front or rear of the cabinet, each drawer at the rearof the cabinet having its upper edges cut away to provide abrupt shoulders centrally of the drawer and strips fastened to the upper sides of said drawer compartments respectively, to engage said shoulders to prevent the withdrawal of each drawer from the rear of the cabinet.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

' GLENN o. HOADLEY. 

